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45 posts from 2013
Making the world more secure, instantly
By Canonical, 20 December 2013
Nobody likes to remember lots of different passwords. This is why most enterprises have implemented single sign-on (SSO) solutions. You just sign in one time...
Ubuntu Desktop: a proven, leading-edge, low-cost OS perfect for education
By Canonical, 17 December 2013
Ubuntu is becoming more and more popular in the education sector globally. Every day millions of students conduct research, produce assignments, correspond...
Juju: a robust cloud strategy built on choice
By Canonical, 17 December 2013
Ubuntu is the reference platform for scale out computing. Some manifestations of scale out computing include: edge of network workloads, dev/test...
Ubuntu and HP: a successful team in the education sector
By Canonical, 11 December 2013
Ubuntu and Hewlett-Packard have shipped over one and a half million laptops directly into education. These were bought by both individuals, and institutions....
More options for app development in Ubuntu on phones with Apache Cordova
By Canonical, 10 December 2013
Canonical opens the doors to over 400,000 web developers with the announcement that Apache Cordova 3.3 will support Ubuntu. This makes it really easy for...
Open source economics | Ubuntu at Le Web 2013, Paris
By Canonical, 9 December 2013
Cost and influence on product development are widely accepted and essential considerations when bringing innovative technological products to market. Today...
The next decade of innovation | Ubuntu at Le Web 2013, Paris
By Canonical, 5 December 2013
Over the last decade, we’ve seen the arrival of the first smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and other connected devices; the Web completely transformed with the...
Asus and Ubuntu deliver affordable world-class laptops to USA Education
By Canonical, 26 November 2013
A quiet revolution is taking place in the global education sector: more and more institutions and students are discovering the value of the Ubuntu operating...
Nearly 60% of OpenStack deployments use Ubuntu
By Mark Baker, 22 November 2013
The OpenStack Foundation recently conducted a survey, asking their members about how they used OpenStack.
MAAS and Juju in a VM on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS – Part 2
By Canonical, 19 November 2013
Enterprise environments rely on Ubuntu’s LTS (Long-term Support) release. Its established two year release cadence and five year security and maintenance...
Interested in MAAS and Juju? Here’s how to try it in a VM
By Canonical, 15 November 2013
The backbone for scale-out workload deployments in Ubuntu, such as big data (Hadoop), cloud (OpenStack), and layered applications is a combination of...
Deploying Web Applications using Juju – (Part 3/3)
By Canonical, 7 November 2013
The goal of this tutorial series is to demonstrate the power of Juju service orchestration for deploying web applications and infrastructure services. Juju is...